A Bloody Good Winner: Life as a Professional Gambler |
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Author:
Dave Nevison,
David Ashforth
By Highdown
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: £7.99
Our Price: £2.74
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781905156450
ISBN: 1905156456
Label: Highdown
Manufacturer: Highdown
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2008-06-02
Publisher: Highdown
Studio: Highdown |
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A bloody good read, 2009-06-09
I bought this book for my husband.
He read it in record time even at the dinner table,bursting out laughing at times, he didn't want to stop but didn't want to finish.
He said it was a bloody good read and I have bought his other book as well.
Inglorious Certainty?, 2008-10-13
The merit of this book for me was that it does make the point that, if you are going to be a fulltime gambler, you are in it for the big bucks, not the small cheeses, unlke (as Nevison points out) some other professional backers, who are content to make something like £20K a year, albeit taxfree. Nevison wants more like £200K+ if not far more! And, if he is to be believed, he gets it! That alone, if so, makes his book worth reading. The downside is the abrasive Yorkshire knowall element, which slightly (more than slightly) put my teeth on edge. And his lifestyle around and off the course, seems to be the polar opposite of mine, but then I am not an ex-City of London trader turned honest gambler!
A good read on the whole, but not a lot of use for tips on betting for those of us for whom the normal punt is £100 or less (and I have never put on more than £3K and that money was the result of a run of three winners, ie profit monies). Nevison is --or more or less says he is-- Big Time, but therein lies a lot of the interest, of course.
Dave Nevison :A Bllody Good Winner, 2009-04-08
A very good read, but many people will be surprised how complicated his overall system of betting is. It is no longer, single bets, double or trebles.
A couple of lenghts behind, 2008-07-01
For what had the ingredients to become a bloody good book, it doesn't deliver. Dave Nevison really could have made this book a lot better than it is. Reason being is that for such an interesting profession, I am very surprised that for all the race meetings that he has attended, there were not more hilarious stories to be told. It is interesting, but not interesting enough for me. From a gambling perspective, interesting stories & facts, but no secrets. If you do read this book, you won't be able to give up your day job after you've finished it if that's what you are looking for.
Classic material , 2008-12-18
I have always been fascinated by gambling and horse-racing so this book was eagerly awaited.
Many punters look up to Nevison as somebody who, if not quite living the dream, has managed to fund a decent lifestyle on the strength of his betting prowess.
He makes it clear in the book that there are no shortcuts on the road to backing winners and it's refreshing to read his honest opinions.
Media coverage of racing seems to be choc-a-bloc with fence-sitters but you certainly won't find much of that in here - he's frank, opinionated and enjoyable to read.
My dad (who's in his eighties) loved it too.
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